You Are Here follows a small cast of New Yorkers who move nimbly among these various textual forms in the years spanning 9/11, the Iraq war, and Bush's reelection. Breckenridge's intertextual complications serve two purposes:
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You Are Here follows a small cast of New Yorkers who move nimbly among these various textual forms in the years spanning 9/11, the Iraq war, and Bush's reelection. Breckenridge's intertextual complications serve two purposes:
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You Are Here follows a small cast of New Yorkers who move nimbly among these various textual forms in the years spanning 9/11, the Iraq war, and Bush's reelection. Breckenridge's intertextual complications serve two purposes:
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Jul 20 2009

You Are Here by Donald Breckenridge

Quinn Latimer

You Are Here

by Donald Breckenridge

$16.00 List Price

Writing fiction about September 11 is an activity rife with hazards. According to a character in Donald Breckenridge's You Are Here, a story about that day "could be read as sensational because the event was." Though this observation may sound proactively defensive, it is the entirely sincere quandary at the center of this novel, which takes as its subject not only the seismic event of 9/11 but the very act of writing about it. At once a play, a short story, and a novel "loosely based on the production of a performance that never happened" (this claimed by a character named Donald Breckenridge), You Are Here follows a small cast of New Yorkers who move nimbly among these various textual forms in the years spanning 9/11, the Iraq war, and Bush's reelection. Breckenridge's intertextual complications serve two purposes:

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